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It is my opinion the unless you sure all you need is the $15.00 plan don't give up the unlimited untill you have too.

--- In apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com, Jim Saklad <jimdoc@...> wrote:
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> > With AT&T new data plans am I correct in saying that if your one who downloads a lot of music, movies and videos to watch and listen to you should get the higher priced package but if you stream and transfer and do not tether you should be OK on the lower plan ?
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> Obviously, the data that needs to be transferred from the server to the iPhone is the same whether downloaded (as a podcast, a song, or a movie) or streamed live.
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> The significant difference is that you can plan ahead and download the movies, podcasts, etc., over wifi, then transfer them to the iPhone, and not use 3G bandwidth at all.
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> Whereas if you stream, you are running up 3G megabytes very rapidly.
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> One of our three iPhones is used to stream radio (while she semi-mindlessly enters billing data on the computer at work), and her monthly usage is up around 1.5-1.9 GB regularly. The 10 GB of (mostly old) podcasts on *my* iPhone, on the other hand, are downloaded to my Mac and sync'd to the iPhone, and therefore *my* monthly usage hovers around 200 MB.
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